SOILWORK Övergivenheten - Compopser Reaction and Song Production Breakdown
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This band is certainly worthy of a deep dive. Speed, the vocalist, is one of the best to do it. His choruses are all delicious candy. Speed’s other band, The Night Flight Orchestra, is equally as cool although very different. It’s in the style of album oriented rock (AOR) like Boston, Foreigner, REO Speedwagon. Great stuff.
His session work is fantastic as well. Disarmonia Mundi is phenomenal
@@ethanreed5815 the New Model Army covers he’s done are awesome too!
The Night Flight Orchestra is awesome!!!
You said it all!
RIP David Andersson man, what a huge loss.
Soilwork has been one of my favorite metal bands since I discovered them in 2013. They have so many great qualities to their music, every single album has its own merits and they are consistently great to amazing.
Crazy. He was also a family practitioner!!! It's tragic because her wrote "The Godless Universe," which is my daily anthem!! Fucking amazing!!!
This band deserves a deep dive! Song of the Damned, Follow the Hollow, Departure Plan, this band’s whole discography is filled with gold! Soilwork is an all-time favorite. Glad you dug.
Been listening to Soilwork since they released "Stabbing the Drama" back in the early 2005.Their best work IMO is the double album "The Living Infitine" Sadly my favorite part of the band left which was the drummer Dirk. This album is really good though and their new drummer is fantastic. Bjorn, the vocalist, is a fucking powerhouse. I got to see them live here in NC once and I am so glad I did because I will probably never get to again.
Dirk was the freaking man. So much feel and groove and sneaky little splash digs.
Stabbing the Drama was when I first heard them too. That CD was all I listened to for a solid 8 months. The groove and melody that album had blew me away. Been a huge fan ever since then. Every album is great except Sworn to a Great Divide, but that’s their only weak album and it’s not all that bad to be honest
I started listening after I saw the music video for As We Speak from Natural Born Chaos back in 2002ish? I kind of fell off keeping up with the last few albums. They've put out so many albums over the years.
I got into them after listening to chainheart machine. That was a game changer for me. That album is so fuckin riffy.
100%. I could listen to the Living Infinite endlessly
Rock in peace David Andersson 🤘❤️
I don't comment on UA-cam much, but I have to formally request a deep dive on these guys. Soilwork have been around since the 90s and have really shaped the evolution of Swedish Melodic Death Metal. They are probably one of the best extreme metal bands of all time and definitely do not get the credit or attention they deserve. Pick any song, any album, you will not be disappointed.
If I had to say there is one "greatest band of all time", it's definitely Soilwork. I'd love to see more, something off of The Living Infinite or The Ride Majestic, as I feel that was their absolute peak of songwriting genius (although they've lost very little, if any, of it since).
Can't really agree with them being the greatest band of all time, but these two albums are definitely among their greatest! A peak within the genre itself. As someone else mentioned their other band Night Flight Orchestra are really pleasant. Not progressive at all, but great "good vibes" hard rock stuff 🤙
It's hard to pick a top album, but The Ride Majestic would be in the top 3 along with Natural Born Chaos and Sworn To A Great Divide.
The Living Infinite is 100% one of the best albums ever recorded imo
This album is a masterpiece!!! Its worth listening to the whole album. RIP David
Been into this band since about 2000/2001. What’s been really cool is to see how they continue to evolve while keeping a lot of their sound, with a myriad of lineup changes throughout the years.
All these very beautiful and melancholic intro's and outro's on songs on Övergivenheten actually make me tear up now knowing that this was the last album David Andersson recorded wrote for. It's really rough.
Agree
@keyofgeebz everything all of these beautiful people have said. Deep dive - absolutely!
David/Rasmus and Bjorns other band - Night flight Orchestra - errr yes yes yes yes!
As for David passing away a few weeks ago - gutted beyond words.
This band have always grown and evolved. I’ve been following them for 20+ years and still one of my faves. Björn is easily one of the best vocalists in modern day metal - hands down.
Latest record is a masterpiece!🤘🤘🤘🤘💙💙
Awesome, glad you're checking out this track, I really enjoyed it. Excellent band with a long history.
More more more soilwork. They have been killing it for over 20 years and don’t get enough credit! One of my favorites.
“Like the average stalker” and “Needlefeast” are a few personal favorite songs of theirs. Great band to watch live!! 🤙🤘
Needlefeast will always be a favorite of mine.
@Geebz thank you for finally getting around to Soilwork. They have a huge discography, and many tracks worthy of dissecting.
Geebz! My man! I've been waiting for you to do some Soilwork. One of my fave melo-death bands and the singer, Speed, is easily my favourite metal singer. He has an incredible voice. Can't wait for you to check out more of their tracks. Definitely worthy of a deep dive
Such a wonderful look into the band from someone who isn't an avid fan of the genre! Always love your insights into how to really describe the music from a composer perspective!
I was fortunate enough to see them live in Pittsburgh back in 2010. These guys have been crushing it for decades.
Steel City, baby!
Sad I missed it now, never heard of them before this. Gonna have to check out more of their work!
The Pittsburg Syndrome 🤘
It translates to "The Abandonment". Soilwork is pretty much my favourite band of all time. Can't wait to see your reaction to them as a first time listener!
This band, along with In Flames, was my first exposure to Metal and has shaped my musical tastes. This is probably my favorite album. So amazing, thanks for covering them!
Övergivenheten can be translates as "The abandonment". Great track :)
Always loved this band. They just have a fantastic track record of producing absolutely stellar albums, and there are just so many of their songs that have a special place in my heart.
And I love you too, man.
You should defo react to father and son watching the world go down or let this river flow by soilwork
yep definitely Father and Son Watching the World go Down
Love Soilwork! 💖
Every album of theirs is amazing!
4:45 just gonna leave this timestamp here lol
I picked up Soilwork's new CD a few weeks ago after listening to the single "Dreams of Nowhere" a million times. It's so damn good! Hit after hit after hit. Truly, Metal Album of the Year material. I watched this reaction twice yesterday because I liked it so much. Good song, good discussion.
4:45 Absolutely the best sneeze ever!
I like the way you expressed your impressions writing to keep it going. Not sure if its more troublesome to work it that way but I like the format! Thx and bless you 😅
This was a sweet track! The composition of it all, and the anthemic nature of it reminds me a little bit of Dream Evil, close to a rock opera style. That riff will probably play in my head all day, though; such a good sound coming out of that guitar! And the drummer was really letting it off through most of that, what a phenomenal piece!
Awesome work here, would love to hear more of them on the channel. Might have to go look into them myself, never heard of them.🤔
Thanks for the vid, Geebz! I'm still here, and keep on rocking!🤙🤘
you've got one hell of a catalogue to dig into
If only I could forget Soilwork so that I could listen to them for the first time again. I envy you.
They're actually the best ever in my book. You can never go wrong with Soilwork.
Finally after a year of plugging!!! Please do a deep dive on them. Anything off the Ride Majestic is worth a listen. Cheers Geebz!
Edit: the song in English means The Abandonment
Ride the majestic is so underrated, my favourite album along with predators portrait, NBC and stabbing the drama
@@jamesthemachinedean the first song that I ever heard by them was Observation Slave. Stabbing the Drama is an amazing album, as well as NBC. They are one of the few bands that I’ve listened to that all of their discography is good.
@@ethanreed5815 I bought stabbing the drama when it was released and that's where I started my soilwork journey saw the 3 times 2005, 2006 and 2007 not seen them since.
@@jamesthemachinedean I’d kill to see them live. Awesome dude
@@ethanreed5815 take it you're in the states then? It's a bit easier to see European bands living in the UK
Oh man Soilwork is my favorite Melodeath band. They have so many great songs. I could listen to them any day any time
One of the most consistantly great metal bands around with a monster of a back catalogue to get through.
Soilwork has NO BAD RECORDS, every song they write absolutely fucking amazing. Definitely my favorite band of all time.
Sweeds definitely bring a different perspective to metal. Like Mesbuggah. One of the keys is they have two extraordinary lead guitarists who can harmonize every part live. Check out their old stuff. They have quite a library. I like "Stabbing the Drama". Where I first found them.
Mesbuggah 💀
The vocalist and drummer of this band have another project with the bassist of Arch Enemy called Night Flight Orchestra that I think you would find interesting. It is a group that makes music that replicates 70's/80's AOR style rock (Boston, Styx, Asia, etc...).
guitarist, not drummer, but not any longer. RIP David Andersson
Damn they are sick as fuck thanks for mentioning that!
I've been listening to Soilwork since the first album and I also think you should do a deep dive in to their albums, happy to advice on song from a selection of their albums.
a little explanation on the sub-genre Melodic Death Metal: Melodic Death Metal as a sub-genre is synonymous with Gothenburg Thrash Metal (as in Gothenburg, Sweden) that came out of the 90s with bands like In Flames, Dark Tranquility, At The Gates and Soilwork (all Swedish metal bands). The sound started as a more aggressive mix of thrash metal and death metal but soon morphed with a lot of the bands shedding their thrash influences and embracing the growls of death metal but adding in melodies and harmonies. As the name says, melodic death metal is "softer" than straight death metal, melo death usually has more technicality in their guitar work, in some case there's more clean singing as well. as a result, Melodic Death Metal is the more commercial side of extreme music.
The singer made a collab with Earthside couple of years ago. I think it's Crater. That song is amazing it could be a futur reaction to do!
yes it is fantastic!
Soilwork is such a wonderful band with a great evolution throughout their discography. Starting with straight (amazing!) melo death (e.g. 'Razorlives', 'Bastard Chain') evolving to a more prog and classic metal orientated niche of melo death. I highly recommend to check out the magnus opus of the modern Soilwork era 'A Whisp of the Atlantic', a 16+ min masterpiece, compossed and written by guitarist David Andersson who sadly passed away recently.
I second Whisp. It's truly their masterpiece as far as single songs go. 16 minutes long and always feels like it's over too soon.
I got into this band when I got A Predators Portrait, been following them ever since. It's crazy how much they have evolved. Definitely worth doing more on this band.
The thing that always stood out to me is this what I feel to be relentless DRIVE that soilwork makes. Just this punishing march forward their songs make me feel. Death diviner, cranking the sirens, light the torch, vesta, brickwalker, breeding thorns, enter dog of Pavlov, stalemate, so many incredible songs by this band. Please keep looking.
One of the most underrated metal bands out there. The album stabbing the drama is one of the best mixes I've ever heard. RIP David.
Thanks for actually listening to a good chunk of the song before dissecting it. Love these guys and glad to hear your thoughts on their music.
Bjorn is one of the most underrated vocalists of our time. Not underrated by us fans, (he is top 5 all time for me) but by the music community in general
i've never heard of this band. cool music!
Listen to their double album, The Living Infinite. It's outstanding and a good starting point for their discography.
Ah snap! I hadn't thought of Soilwork in forever. It was one of my now passed on buddy's favorite bands. When I think of them I also think of In Flames.
Knew the name but not really listened- straight to playlist and will listen to more of their stuff! 🤘🏼🌸
Found this new band called Zeal & Ardour, try the song Run!🤙🏻
Damn, i haven't really listened to this band since their early days, it seems like i need to catch up.
They really took a step up with The Living Infinite. Trust me. I loved Figure Number Five and Natural Born Chaos, but they somehow got better. Way better.
Best album of the year for me
Morning Geebz. I love your interpretation of how the genres present themselves lol. That was awesome
Pronunciation in terms of American English syllables (speak it slowly first, then pace it up): Au-wehr-jeev-en-hey-t. It means desolation in the context of the song, but there may be other interpretations in the translation to make. To me it's desolation.
Thank you for everything, David Andersson. May you show those old stars a few tricks now, wherever you are.
Bless you 😉 Sic analysis, still the best channel here on youtube
need to wait till I get home from work!
Awwright! thanks Geebz!
You should definetly check out the song 'whisp of the atlantic' from Soilwork. the song is a complete journey.
Bjorn's voice is 🔥
Highly recommend their older stuff, too.
Is cool to see you finally covering soilwork. They have so many great albums. From what I've seen in the comments, all of the suggestions are great songs. It's also recommend shadowchild. It's like 4 1/2 minutes long and the middle 2 minutes is an epic instrumental/guitar solo. (It's the song that got me into soilwork)
Don't know where to post this, but dig more into Opeth man. Preferably with Dirge for November, Closure, Derelict Herds, Baying of the Hounds and Folklore.
In that order. Covers most of their signature-style over the years.
*EDIT:* _See it as a continuation to the Porcupine Tree slow burn, journey wise (it's a _*_MAD_*_ selection of songs). Also Steven Wilson is involved on a few tracks._
Consider it! Peace
Nothing tops Bastard Chain for me :)
Do a reaction for "light the torch" by Soilwork. Its a banger, loved these guys, been a for for 15-20ish years.
Melodic Death Metal typically refers to the guitar melodies.
i like how you added extra little sentences on the screen while you were listening
you should deep dive the Gothenburg death metal scene
Soliwork is one of the better metal bands that I have heard. Every album is good. I also suggest a deep dive on these guys.
There's one song that has Devin Townsend on vocals that is killer. It's called "Black Star Deceiver" from the album "Natural Born Chaos". It's such a cool song.
hell yeah Black Star Deceiver was my favourite Soilwork song for a long time, killer track. that whole album was also produced by Devin.
Good grief I love this band
R.i.p. David Andersson...
Sometime around 2007/8 I got huge into this genre of music. Soilwork, In Flames, Sonic Syndicate, Blinded Colony, etc. Still love them all but listen to them less often. Soilwork in particular has maintained the same sounded all this time, which I like (I stopped listening to In Flames when they got poppy).
Also funny you are surprised you're still getting new band requests. I follow over 500 bands on Spotify, most of which you haven't covered yet. If I ever have time I would love to send you a spreadsheet with bands, tags, and fun facts about them. Some of my favorite bands literally have fewer than 1000 listens per month, it's insane how much great music is out there
In Flames is good again, if you haven't heard their new singles.
Yes Geebz! This was a major hole in your catalogue. In Flames is still the biggest one for me. Soilwork is great and their singer Bjorn "Speed" Strid and his vocal hooks are legendary. He's probably done a million guest appearances and he does the clean vocals for an Italian Melodic Death Metal band called Disarmonia Mundi.
Melodic Death Metal basically means the guitars are more of the melody when the singer is growling. That's what Old In Flames is.
Sadly, one of their guitarists committed suicide right after this album just came out. RIP David Andersson.
I'm pretty sure he didn't intentionally kill himself, he just drank too much drowning out his issues
They have many albums! But my favorite track on this new record is called Vultures!
Please do A Whisp of the Atlantic next. You will THOROUGHLY enjoy it.
Aloha Geebz, just got back from Hawaii, wonderful place. Would really enjoy seeing your reaction to a He is Legend song. New song called Lifeless Lemonade just came out.
I would kill for an Architects deep dive!
Great track great artist! Please don’t let the new Lamb of God album go unnoticed, some excellent tracks on there!
Slint - Good Morning, Captain, think you'll enjoy it.
I had the pleasure of seeing these guys touring with Jeff Loomis in 2015. Great show, and even got to meet the guys after. Great experience.
I saw them in that tour 🤘🏻 it's been far too long that I've seen them. Hope they come to the US soon
Right on! I believe the show was in Houston that I attended.. And yes, I’d love to see them again as well! 🤘
That pronunciation was actually very close, just that the g is pronounced with a soft g, över-jiven-heten. It translates to "the abandonment" or "the desertion" (it's probably the meant to be the former)
I had never heard of them till Rock Band. The song Stabbing the Drama. It is quite badass.
These guys were one of the kings of the metalcore scene in the early 2000's along side bands like Killswitch Engage, In Flames, Trivium, etc. They've heavily branched away from their early 2000's metalcore sound to this more melodic death metal sound.
You'll totally trip out listening to their older songs like "Stabbing the Drama"
Stabbing the Drama was the only Metalcore like album
@@dodgrblu Figure number 5 and stabbing the drama were a 5+year period for them
@@White2098 i wouldn't call figure number 5 metalcore though, also less than 5 years
@@dodgrblu did you wake up and decide you were gonna go be spiteful today?
How in the hell do you not consider that a metalcore album? 2003 and 2005 releases = AT LEAST 5 years of use in shows and popularity in the scene of "the early 2000's".
@@White2098 it doesn't sound like metalcore. it sounds like a more mainstream friendly version of their previous melodeath from Natural Born Chaos. the next release was 2007, so that's less than 5 years.
Geebz... would love to hear your thoughts on Sisyphus - Quadeca. Not your usual style but it's amazing compositionally and production wise. I really hope that you give it a shot.
Check out the song Vultures from this same album. Amazing
you should listen to their panic broadcast album!
By they had one of the best drummer in the world, Dirk Verbeuren, who played with a shitload of bands but mostly with Scarve, Soilwork and now megadeath, he also played on Sybreed's second album.
Bless you for not pausing the song 50 times lol Soilwork is the most underrated band of all time
There first album is a banger
So cool you did this recent song by this Swedish Band that sadly lost their main composer and gitarist die to mental health issues. They produced the best fast songs of 2022 in the form of Electric Again and This Godless Universe. Please try one of those where speed is so well combined with melody and even violin and cello. Hope you'll be even more impressed then!
And you're bang on on the mix/ engineering!
I must be weird. Electric Again was the first song I've ever not really liked from them. The chorus just doesn't seem to fit, it's kinda jarring.
This Godless Universe is incredible, though. One of the best tracks on the album.
@@yankeedude252 funny, the chorus is the highlight of the song and maybe album for me, and my favourite song.
This Godless Universe I like but is near the bottom of the list from the album
hi there, you are one of the best reactors out here. but why have you not done any more Animals as Leaders?
Pausing the video to play naughts and crosses on your hat
I'm always wondering what you say during your greeting? Prior to aloha
Howzit is a slang here in Hawai'i for " how is it going" 😎
Is this the first Gothenburg song you’ve reviewed? I think you might have done one Dark Tranquillity song already, but this is a pretty big sub-genre from Sweden and they created the Melodic Death Metal sound. At The Gates, In Flames, Soilwork, Dark Tranquillity, Mnemic, and probably 30+ other bands. Bands like Killswitch Engage are obviously influenced by them.
This band kind of lost me when their principle song writer Peter Wichers left. They're still a good band, but Peter's writing quality was exceptional. Still love Soilwork though.
@Key of Geebz could you do The Halo Effect -"shadowminds"
Review The Godless Universe by Soilwork or "Electric Again!"
I’m Oahu. Let’s do a reaction together uncle. 🙌
The swedish title translates to "The Abandonment". Nice to experience it with you because I listened to the music video and the visuals was kind of boring so it made the song worse. But I like it better just hearing the audio.
You want a new band? Please review Amorphis - Wrong Direction / The Bee / Amongst Stars
Soilwork has been around along side In Flames, At The Gates and Dark Tranquility. They came after the big three yet they maintained their style and perfected it over the years (including line change ups) where others have tried to recapture the old days or sold out.
I've listend 2 songs from each album and 4 from "The Living Infinite" because it was a double album (it was also the one of the highest rated albums that year for metal).
From "The Living Infinite"
Spectrum of Eternity
This Momentary Bliss
Owls Predict, Oracles Stand Guard
Rise Above The Sentiment
From "Verkligheten
Stalfagel
The Ageless Whisper
From "Sworn To A Great Divide"
20 More Miles
Breeding Thorns
From "Stabbing The Drama"
Nerve
Observation Slave
From "The Ride Majestic"
Death In General
Father and Son, Watching the World Go Down
From "The Panic Broadcast"
Two Lives Worth Reckoning
The Akuma Afterglow
From "Overgivenheten"
On The Wings Of A Goddess Through Flaming Sheets of Rain
From " Chainheart Machine"
Chainheart Machine
Room Mo.99
From "Predator's Portrait"
Needlefest
Shadowchild
From "Natural Born Chaos"
As We Speak
The Bringer
From "Figure Number Five"
Departure Plan
Rejection Role
I know soil work but I don’t know this track. Hope it’s a banger
Its the title track from their new album that was released at the end of August.
Cant believe you are FINALLY discovering the swedish treasure! Please PLEASE check out Halo effect - last of our kind!!!!
He still hasn't done In Flames!
Skip Halo Effect, nothin special there. People want it to be the 'melodeath' revival but it's not it at all. Actually, the genre is not dead if you search.
@@hugostiglitz5798if u search? Please, i know the scene very well. Well thats just like your opinion, man. Its an excellent song. Do me a favor and listen to last of our kind and give me your opinion. I would however never call it "revival" since melodeath never died. Just a very interesting lineup and really solid album.
@@DM72513 i know! But im sure its coming. Hoping he will go really old school!!! Plus, he also has dark tranquillity left.
@@snuffcarl "if you search"....yes, meaning there are plenty of awesome melodeath bands out there. I'm disagreeing with people who say it died and this band is brining it back. That's the overwhelming response I've seen. I'm saying it never died...I'm agreeing with you. Anyway, yeah it's my opinion..I wasn't into the album...too soft with no balls. I expected more from the album, considering the line up.
CAN U PLS REACT TO PLANTLIFE BY AUTOLUX!!
Abandomness sort of.. but idk why they titled it in swedish when the song is in english.
For anyone that was interested "Övergivenheten" isn't really a word in Swedish, but if it was the translation would be this:
The Forsakenness
Explanation:
(verb) Överge = Forsake
(adj) Övergiven = Forsaken
(Noun) Övergivenhet = Forsakenness (made up by artist)
Lastly, the -en suffix is the definite article landing us at "The Forsakenness"
Abandon or desert somewhat works but semantically I felt Forsaken to be the best match.
Great Reaction and breakdown as usual Geebz! :)